Darren J. Moore, PhD

Darren J. Moore, PhD, leads the Laboratory of Molecular Neurodegeneration at the Van Andel Research Institute. Dr. Mooreís research focuses on investigating gene products associated with inherited forms of Parkinsonís disease, in particular, the LRRK2 and VPS35 genes.

Dr. Moore received his PhD in molecular neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 2001 in the laboratory of Piers Emson, and conducted postdoctoral research with Ted Dawson in the Department of Neurology and Morris K. Udall Parkinsonís Disease Research Center of Excellence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He joined the faculty of the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins in 2005 as an instructor and was appointed assistant professor in 2006. Prior to joining the Van Andel Research Institute in 2014, Dr. Moore was an assistant professor of life sciences at the Brain Mind Institute, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland.